Multilateral security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region : prospects and possibilities by Ball, Desmond

“…It acknowledges the extraordinary progress of the institutionalisation of multilateral security cooperation between 1992-97 but also sees this process and institutionalising a region-wide confidence-building process were fundamentally important achievements of the first five-year period, but they were relatively easy undertakings when compared to mroe substantive activites such as preventive diplomacy, conflict resolution or arms control.…”
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Crazy pole dancing tattooed metalhead biking crossplaying Asians by Devi, Uma, Kang, Hillary Yu Ping

“…Singapore is known for its glitz, glamour and billion dollar skyline, but there are great things to be found in Singapore beyond what the world sees on glossy magazines and CGI-ed screens. Not everyone in Singapore may be rich, but they are certainly crazy - if you know where to look. …”
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3D printed photoacoustic shockwave transducer for cavitation research by Chan, Weiwei

“…The laser generated photoacoustic waves is focused thereby achieving several hundred bars of positive pressure in water. Previous designs employed concave glass substrates decorated with catalytically grown carbon nanotubes. …”
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Intelligent elderly care II by Low, Jia Xin.

“…Digi International XBee modules, which make use of the low-power-consumption ZigBee technology, are the wireless transmitting modules implemented in this project. …”
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Optimising high porosity 3D scaffold by wet electrospinning by Ong, Su Ming

“…Recently, there has been a significant increase of bone tissue engineering research for elderly as they are more prone to bone defects and damages. …”
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Business contingency and continuity plan by maritime firms in Singapore by Muhammad Fahrur Razi Bin Yusoff

“…COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most disruptive events in global history. …”
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Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy by Holman, Christopher

“…Democracy is tragic to the extent that it must be a regime of self-limitation, there existing no ethical standard external to society that may intervene so as to guide our political self-activity, and yet the structure of deliberation in democratic assemblies tends to render such self-limitation impossible. Hence what Hobbes sees as the inherent tendency of democratic activity to descend into excess and madness. …”
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Without passage by Chee, En Cui

“…They change across perspectives. I see a girl exploring her psyche. Maybe you see a witch trying to escape a prison? …”
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Stiffness of RC columns with hollow section by Teng, Ganyu

“…In particular, an accurate and reliable OpenSees model was proposed and validated against experimental data. …”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…They are especially concerned with questions about agency and the character of relations. Where ant sees ‘networks’, spider insists that we deal with ‘meshworks’. …”

Pragmatic encroachment on knowledge? by Wong, Don Wei Wen

“…This view of knowledge has been contested by an opposing camp of anti-pragmatism or intellectualism which sees the matter of having knowledge as being solely dependent on truth-connected factors in that of epistemic reasons. …”
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Utilizing open-source hardware and software to construct a mesh of environmental sensors for microclimate studies by Chan, Cun Bin

“…A network of 3 Router sensors and Coordinator is prototyped using Arduino microcontroller, Raspberry Pi single-board computer, and ZigBee and Wi-Fi communication protocols. The wireless sensor network is deployed within Crest Secondary School as a test bed. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the thermal performance of functional magnetic nanofluids by Lim, Wen Jing

“…It is also known as the world’s smallest stir bars. In this project, the nanofluid was tested inside a cylindrical cavity with a hot and cold surface and the temperature was taken by various thermocouples. …”
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Design of ultra low power 1-bit full adder cell for logic devices by Kumar, Abhishek

“…The transition has enabled the designers to achieve unbelievable operating frequencies in tens of gigahertz, but a major trade off has been arising and has to be addressed as one of the key challenges for the SOC designers and that challenge is nothing but restricting the power consumption of the circuit. …”
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Carbon monoxide poisoning mitigation approaches for the anode of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells by Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi Ehteshami

“…The presence of CO even in very low concentrations (a few tens of ppm level) is the main source of overpotential loss in the anode of PEMFC’s. …”
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Scalable cascade inference for semantic image segmentation by Sturgess, P, Ladický, L, Crook, N, Torr, PHS

“…However when working in a more general setting where the number of classes could easily reach tens of thousands, sub-linear complexity is desired. …”

On affine invariant clustering and automatic cast listing in movies by Fitzgibbon, A, Zisserman, A

“…This is a very demanding test as it involves detecting and clustering over tens of thousands of images with the variances including changes in viewpoint, lighting, scale and expression.…”

Evaluation of the synergistic effects of novel antimicrobial polymer 147-1 by Leong, Philemon Ye Chao

“…Antibiotics have mostly been administered in standalone formulations, though there has been increasing evidence of the viability of combination therapy. …”
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Streamoscope: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, USB-3-Capable Streaming Data Acquisition System for Low-Field MRI by Feld, Joseph W.

“…Low-field MRI systems need to acquire data with sample rates in the tens of megahertz, which can make the data acquisition system the bulk of the overall cost of low-cost systems. …”
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